Book description
Amazon Web Services in Action, Second Edition is a comprehensive introduction to computing, storing, and networking in the AWS cloud. You'll find clear, relevant coverage of all the essential AWS services you to know, emphasizing best practices for security, high availability and scalability.
About the Technology
The largest and most mature of the cloud platforms, AWS offers over 100 prebuilt services, practically limitless compute resources, bottomless secure storage, as well as top-notch automation capabilities. This book shows you how to develop, host, and manage applications on AWS.
About the Book
Amazon Web Services in Action, Second Edition is a comprehensive introduction to deploying web applications in the AWS cloud. You’ll find clear, relevant coverage of all essential AWS services, with a focus on automation, security, high availability, and scalability. This thoroughly revised edition covers the latest additions to AWS, including serverless infrastructure with AWS Lambda, sharing data with EFS, and in-memory storage with ElastiCache.
What's Inside
- Completely revised bestseller
- Secure and scale distributed applications
- Deploy applications on AWS
- Design for failure to achieve high availability
- Automate your infrastructure
About the Reader
Written for mid-level developers and DevOps engineers.
About the Authors
Andreas Wittig and Michael Wittig are software engineers and DevOps consultants focused on AWS. Together, they migrated the first bank in Germany to AWS in 2013.
Quotes
Slices through the complexity of AWS using examples and visuals to cement knowledge in the minds of readers.
- From the Foreword by Ben Whaley, AWS community hero and author
The authors’ ability to explain complex concepts is the real strength of the book.
- Antonio Pessolano, Consoft Sistemi
Useful examples, figures, and sources to help you learn efficiently.
- Christof Marte, Daimler-Benz
Does a great job of explaining some of the key services in plain English so you have the knowledge necessary to dig deeper.
- Ryan Burrows, Rooster Park Consulting
Publisher resources
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Brief Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Praise for the First Edition
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About this book
- About the authors
- About the cover illustration
- Part 1. Getting started
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Part 2. Building virtual infrastructure consisting of computers and networking
- Chapter 3. Using virtual machines: EC2
- Chapter 4. Programming your infrastructure: The command-line, SDKs, and CloudFormation
- Chapter 5. Automating deployment: CloudFormation, Elastic Beanstalk, and OpsWorks
- Chapter 6. Securing your system: IAM, security groups, and VPC
- Chapter 7. Automating operational tasks with Lambda
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Part 3. Storing data in the cloud
- Chapter 8. Storing your objects: S3 and Glacier
- Chapter 9. Storing data on hard drives: EBS and instance store
- Chapter 10. Sharing data volumes between machines: EFS
- Chapter 11. Using a relational database service: RDS
- Chapter 12. Caching data in memory: Amazon ElastiCache
- Chapter 13. Programming for the NoSQL database service: DynamoDB
- Part 4. Architecting on AWS
- Index
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Listings
Product information
- Title: Amazon Web Services in Action, Second Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2018
- Publisher(s): Manning Publications
- ISBN: 9781617295119
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